Here we were, back at the good old request board. It seemed like Kazumi hadn't been here for so long, yet she had still gotten multiple jobs. What's more, she was making a pretty good living for herself even still. It seemed like she always had a job to do even without requesting one. Instead, people that she had worked with before had been asking for her help specifically. It felt pretty good. Even so, Kazu found herself without some of these jobs for a while, and at first, it was pretty relieving to be able to rest for a day or two. However now, she was ready to start again on a new adventure.

It was for this reason she once again found herself at the Fairy Tail request bulletin board. Surely someone out there required her assistance, and she was here to make sure that that person gets the help that they needed. In fact, She spotted a request for the guild involving a black smith's assistance injuring themselves. They needed someone strong to take over for the day and help with the daily tasks of being a black smith's assistant. It seemed like it would be simple enough.

Kazumi pulled the request flyer off of the board and took out her map.The quest location was the Black Anvil, which was a place, presumably a black smith's shop, that the crystal maker mage had never been to. As such, she would definitely need directions on where to go in order to get there. After comparing the two papers and carefully drawing a hopefully efficient route to the Black Anvil on her map, Kazumi folded up the request sheet and put it in her pocket, only needing the map itself to get her to where she needed to go.

The path to the Black Anvil was long, though perhaps it only seemed that way since Kazumi had no idea what she was doing or where she was going. It was a brand new place, after all. She needed to be careful so that she would not get lost. It was also nice that the weather that day was so clear and breezy, making the journey there as painless as possible so that the young Fairy Tail aligned wizard could simply focus on getting there. And getting there she did without much trouble at all. After a bit of a walk, she found herself standing in front of her destination.

The Black Anvil was pretty small and looking around at all the other buildings that were standing around it, it blended in pretty well. However, there was no mistaking it. You could hear the clang of metal against metal as workers hammered away at steel.Yep, this is definitely the place, no doubt about it, Kazumi though to herself as she stepped up to the door, nodding her head to her own thoughts. She knocked on the door as she opened it, making sure to catch the attention of SOMEONE. "Excuse me, I'm Looking for a Barras Barend?"

The man who called out to Kazumi when she asked for Barras was way in the back, busy sharpening a sword it seemed. As Kazu approached him, however, he put the sword down on the small table next to him and stood up, wiping his hands on his apron before holding one out to the young crystal maker in greeting. "I'm Barras, nice to meet you. Are you from Fairy Tail?" Kazumi shook his hand and nodded in response to his question. "That's right. My name is Kazumi Kiseki, I'm here in response to your request for help.""Perfect. The demand for products made by the Black Anvil has been on the rise, and we have all been extremely busy these days because of it, as you could probably imagine." He wasn't wrong, everyone around here seemed to be working quickly, nonstop. "We've been able to keep up just fine, but my Assistant here injured his arm and production is slowing down." This is the first time Kazumi noticed the man standing next to Barras, now waving at her with a bandaged arm. The smith continued. "Do you think you could help Terry out for the day?""No problem, I'm sure I can handle it.""That's the spirit. Thanks a lot."

Kazu followed the injured assistant, Terry to what she assumed was his workstation. "Alright," Terry Started, "They gave me a simple job today, so as to make sure that whoever came in to cover for me today won't hinder us all." Kazumi could not say that she was okay with his tone, but she also couldn't blame him. "Basically, all you have to do is take this mallet," He dropped a heavy hammer into Kazumi's arms and she almost fell over. "And flatten out some piping hot, soft metal that I'll put on the table. Easy, right?""Sure, Let's do this."

It was actually harder than it sounded. The mallet was really heavy and whenever Kazumi would hit the metal, she would have to take a short second to be able to lift it up again. Not to mention, her first few attempts were so uneven that Terry had to plunge them back into the fire whilst scolding the crystal mage. However, like most things, she got better as she kept going, getting slightly faster and finding a rhythm that kept the metal as even as she could get it, though it never reached perfection. Still, she was pretty glad when the day was over. It was way hotter in there than it was outside in the summer heat! Upon closing up shop, Barras came over and chuckled when he saw Kazumi's relieved face. "Ha ha, You did just fine.Thanks for your help.""No problem, It wasn't too bad at all." And she meant it. It was actually kind of relaxing. "Good to hear it. Maybe you'll come back and help again sometime?" Barras handed Kazumi a bag of jewels, not expecting her to answer his rhetorical question. She did anyway as she was leaving. "Who knows? I could be back soon."